Photo – Rae Le Fay competing for England
Three Tonbridge Athletic Club women were selected for international duty to compete at the Loughborough International Meeting, at the university, on Sunday. Teams from England, Scotland, Wales, Great Britain Juniors, a National League team and Loughborough University competed. Lucy Tallon ran for the Great Britain under 20s team, whilst both Asha Root and Rae Le Fay were in the England team.
Root had a tremendous race, moving through in the home straight of the 400 metres to finish 2nd in 54.98, as five competitors finished within 0.3 seconds of each other. It was Root’s fastest time of the season so far and just outside her best-ever time.
Rae Le Fay also had a fine run, pacing the 3000 metres steeplechase well to finish 3rd of the eleven starters, in 10.41.16, just outside her best. Lucy Tallon ran for the Great Britain Juniors 4×100 metres relay team, who finished 2nd to a Great Britain senior team.
Elsewhere, there were some wins for Tonbridge distance runners around the country. Jamie Macdonald won the British Milers Club 3000 metres, in Fleet, Somerset, with a big pb of 8.21.91. Ben Cole won the Commonweal 5 miles multi-terrain race, near Swindon in 25.42 and Kieran Reilly won the Monikie Park 10km race, near Dundee.
Isaac Arnott reduced his best time to 8.36.23, when finishing 7th in the race won by Macdonald and Ethan Rocks had a breakthrough performance, also at Fleet, when he ran 1.53.94 over 800 metres.
At Watford, on Wednesday, Ted Higgins and James Kingston had good runs in the British Milers Club 1500 metres, finishing 3rd and 5th in 3.45.52 and 3.48.12, respectively. This was a personal best for Higgins. Also on Wednesday, personal bests for 1500 were recorded by Jake Brislane, with 3.55.79 at Loughborough and Amelia Beeston with 4.59.0 at Bath.
At Lee Valley, on Sunday there were 400m pbs for George Blake (49.42) and Tom Daly (50.06).
Note – no results from the Kent Young Athletes League available at the time of writing.